These were the questions young Henry asked himself, having exhausted all the libraries and bookstores in his search for evermore fairy tales to read -- so delighted was he by their wonder, magic and airy improbabilities. Yet the answer to these bese…

The editors of Amazing Stories -- who first published this novel in August, September, and October 1928 -- waxed ecstatic over it. ". . . when such a story as The Skylark of Space comes along," they said "we just feel as if we must shout from the ho…

The Man Who Saw the Future is the tale of a man who traveled from the medieval past into the here and now. When here and now was 1930 Amazing, the scientific breakthroughs that used to happen in those isolated laboratories. . . .

I was chief of the Air Force's project for investigating UFO reports -- Project Blue Book.It is well known that ever since the first flying saucer was reported in June 1947 the Air Force has officially said that there is no proof that such a thing a…

I was chief of the Air Force's project for investigating UFO reports -- Project Blue Book.It is well known that ever since the first flying saucer was reported in June 1947 the Air Force has officially said that there is no proof that such a thing a…

HE LOVED HER AND HE LOVED ROME Taurus Antinor loved her, that she knew. The last four days had made a woman of her: she had tasted of and witnessed every passion that rends a human heart, love, ambition, cruelty, hatred The man whom she loved, lov…

HE LOVED HER AND HE LOVED ROME Taurus Antinor loved her, that she knew. The last four days had made a woman of her: she had tasted of and witnessed every passion that rends a human heart, love, ambition, cruelty, hatred The man whom she loved, lov…

They are as poor as a family can be, among those rolling northern hills. Amos and his girls, Lydia and Patience -- with the hired help Lizzie whom Amos can barely afford -- scrape out a meager living on the edge of a town nestled among maple-edged f…

The Lexman Spacedrive gave man the stars -- but at a fantastic price. Interstellar exploration, colonization, and trade became things of reality. The benefits to Earth were enormous. But because of the Fitzgerald Contraction, a man who shipped out t…

The Lexman Spacedrive gave man the stars -- but at a fantastic price. Interstellar exploration, colonization, and trade became things of reality. The benefits to Earth were enormous. But because of the Fitzgerald Contraction, a man who shipped out t…

When Ambrosine's grandmother falls ill, she is told that she will marry Mr. Gurrage, a man with money enough to take care of Ambrosine. Unfortunately, Ambrosine finds him brutish and disgusting. He is much too beneath her to marry, but she has no mo…

Thick jungles of rank growth covered the ground. The air was depressing and enervating. Men could live there, but it was a sickly, fever-ridden existence. The whole population of the earth desired the high lands and as the low country became more un…

Thick jungles of rank growth covered the ground. The air was depressing and enervating. Men could live there, but it was a sickly, fever-ridden existence. The whole population of the earth desired the high lands and as the low country became more un…

The space ship landed briefly, and John Endlich lifted the huge Asteroids Homesteaders Office box, which contained everything from a prefabricated house to toothbrushes for his family, down from the hold-port without help or visible effort.In the t…

The space ship landed briefly, and John Endlich lifted the huge Asteroids Homesteaders Office box, which contained everything from a prefabricated house to toothbrushes for his family, down from the hold-port without help or visible effort.In the t…

There is a man who has lost his wife and daughter. He is the sole survivor in the accident and feels great guilt. And in this guilt, he begins to drink more and more each day. Then one day as the man was contemplating suicide, a stranger named Joren…

Henry Leroux is writing peacefully in his room when a strange woman appears at his door. She is ill and presently faints in his presence. Henry runs up to fetch Dr. Cumberly, but when they all return, they discover that the woman is dead. And not on…

Henry Leroux is writing peacefully in his room when a strange woman appears at his door. She is ill and presently faints in his presence. Henry runs up to fetch Dr. Cumberly, but when they all return, they discover that the woman is dead. And not on…

On Christmas Eve, while the Perfect Reader sits in his armchair immersed in a book -- so absorbed that he has let the fire go out -- I propose to slip gently down the chimney and leave this tribute in his stocking. It is not a personal tribute. I sp…

SOMETHING WAS WRONGAnd something had gone wrong, for the doctors discovered their accident patient had two hearts. It was the beginning of the discovery that the Earth had been invaded by ten such creatures from Outer Space.Every effort was made to…

"Would you mind repeating that?""I said, sir, that Mr. Friden said, sir, that he sees a city.""A city?""Yes sir."Captain Webber rubbed the back of his hand along his cheek."You realize, of course, that that is impossible?" He called for the astronom…

That night the comet was the only thing in the whole sky. All the stars were smothered by the light of its copper-yellow flame, and, although the sun had set two hours ago, the Earth was lit as with the glow of a thunderous dawn.In Mayfield, Ken Mad…

That night the comet was the only thing in the whole sky. All the stars were smothered by the light of its copper-yellow flame, and, although the sun had set two hours ago, the Earth was lit as with the glow of a thunderous dawn.In Mayfield, Ken Mad…

In his later work, Grey portrayed Mormonism more neutrally -- but here, in this book, those evil polyandering men are villains, plain and simple. Well, ewww -- there's a reason why the Mormons generally gave it up, and don't think being part of the…